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| Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) and Death Proof featured in Grindhouse (2007). Early life Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian American actor and musician. His mother, Connie McHugh, worked for a home medical organization and had part Cherokee Native American ancestry. Shortly after Quentin's birth, his mother married musician Curt Zastoupil, with whom Quentin would form a strong bond. He started kindergarten in 1968. In 1971, the family moved to El Segundo, in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, where Tarantino attended Hawthorne Christian School. At the age of 14, he wrote his first script, The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Lee.[5] Dropping out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California at the age of sixteen, he went on to learn acting at the James Best Theatre Company. This proved to be influential in his movie-making career. In 1984, Tarantino started working the counter at the Video Archives, a Manhattan Beach video store. Tarantino befriended Roger Avary, a fellow employee with whom he would later collaborate. While he continued to study acting at Allen Garfield's Actors' Shelter in Beverly Hills, he began to concentrate on screenwriting.
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Director Shorts and TV: My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) ER (1995) Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood" (Director) Jimmy Kimmel Live (2004) 20 April 2004 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005) '"Grave Danger: Vols. I & II" Feature films: Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994) Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004) Death Proof (2007) (Cannes Film Festival cut, to be released independently) Inglorious Bastards (TBA) Come Drink With Me (TBA) Collaborative films: Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995) Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director) Grindhouse (Death Proof segment) (2007)
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